Bought your first tarot deck and don’t know where to begin? Booked a reading with your favorite astrologer and not sure what to ask? In this special episode, I break down the key elements in opening up and asking for guidance, be it from cards, star charts or any mode of divination. I talk about setting intentions, rituals for before and after a reading, and getting to know your guides (think: inner children, future selves, ancestors, angels, past lives, higher powers and gods) and framing your questions.

And if you’re giving a reading, or receiving one, what should you look out for? I share some of my personal detectors for calling out bullshit in a reading, and for asking the right questions. I share some of my favorite tarot spreads, along with books that changed the way I practice, including Mary Greer’s Tarot Reversals, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Way of the Tarot, and Rachel Pollack’s Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Whether you’re looking to read yourself or your friends, my intention is to provide you with the inspiration to develop your own practice.

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What can the planets tell us about our awakening age of artificial intelligence? Quite a bit, as it happens. In 2023, Pluto, the planet of the underworld, death and fate, entered Aquarius, the sign of technology and new ideas. Only two years into a two-decade Aquarius residency, Pluto has unleashed the dark god of AI, and revealed the cynicism and one-size-fits-all dehumanization at the heart of big tech. Must it end here? What are our choices, beyond strapping into patent leather and doing high kicks, like Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix?

To make sense of the future, I pull an opening card: Judgment, which gives us insight into fate, calling, and awakening. What is our individual assignment in this harrowing new chapter? I talk about Pluto’s previous editions, namely in Scorpio (think: the AIDS Crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s) and in Capricorn (flash to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath). Devastating periods, which did, at great cost, inspire new modes of activism and consciousness. If the heroes of the ACT UP generation can teach us anything, it’s how to face an impossible enemy.

As for the present? I talk about the final season of The Comeback, and invoke Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish as a messiah of optimism and originality in an age of pre-arranged playlists and human isolation. We dig into Pluto’s possibilities for reinvention, and for Aquarius’ high aspects of idealism, inventiveness and originality. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.

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What if collapse isn't a crisis, but an initiation?

Beltane, or May Day, marks the peak of Taurus season: fire, fertility, flowers, libido, and the solar god Bel. But this year, a powerful Scorpio full moon pulls us into the underworld, and this week's tarot card is The Tower.

Most people fear The Tower. I don't.

The Tower is necessary destruction. Beltane is creative life force. Together, they're teaching us that renewal requires rupture.

In this episode:

• The true meaning of Beltane and May Day in pagan spirituality
• Taurus season, embodied pleasure, and the Horned God
• The Scorpio full moon and underworld truth-telling
• The Tower tarot: collapse, awakening, rebirth
• The Goddess, the divine masculine, and healing beyond patriarchy
• Persephone and Pluto: death, sex, transformation
• Taurus–Scorpio polarity: body vs. shadow, stability vs. surrender
• Why real optimism is a radical act

Whether you're here for Beltane rituals, Taurus season astrology, Scorpio full moon energy, The Tower tarot card, or divine masculine healing, you're in the right place.

The Tower falls. The flowers bloom. We build again, consciously.

🔥 Like, subscribe, and drop a comment: What is falling away in your life right now?

Happy Beltane. Go light a fire. 🌸🔥

Write to me at Ask@Heavenlybodiespodcast.com

To book a reading with, go to DavidOdyssey.com